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2016 Postmortem

In reply to the discussion: What the Hell Happened? [View all]

ancianita

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5. We got caught up. The Republican win was in the numbers it took to win electors. That's my takeaway.
Sun Nov 20, 2016, 12:46 PM
Nov 2016

See my 'lightbulb' post in the topic thread.

We have to get ourselves together here. Not emote so much. Watch the mechanisms of the voter controls at state levels.

What the Hell Happened? [View all] Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 OP
Emails. And Benghazi. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2016 #1
And CNN and MSNBC and FOX TrishaJ Nov 2016 #16
Nope. It was Jeff Zucker and CNN who are to blame. duffyduff Nov 2016 #2
the media was a HUGE part of it, if not completely their fault Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #11
Oh yes, they were. Zucker literally CREATED Donald Trump the candidate. n/t duffyduff Nov 2016 #42
Agreed. They became addicted to the add revenues. kairos12 Nov 2016 #58
Corporate mefia. SammyWinstonJack Nov 2016 #3
Plus a gazillion Retrograde Nov 2016 #10
Super-delegates chose poorly? Denis 11 Nov 2016 #4
No guarantee of a win either MFM008 Nov 2016 #6
True Denis 11 Nov 2016 #23
Don't start. She won the primary, she gets most of the Superdelegates. End of story. Peigan68 Nov 2016 #31
The super-delegate system is supposed to help find the best candidate. Denis 11 Nov 2016 #36
No. Common knowledge is that you don't let a losing R B Garr Nov 2016 #53
He energized a lot of voters Denis 11 Nov 2016 #54
He alienated voters from the Democratic party with unrealistic promises and R B Garr Nov 2016 #55
Should we give up on minimum wage raise then. Denis 11 Nov 2016 #57
You don't have to be a Hillary partisan to recognize when someone is trying to R B Garr Nov 2016 #61
Or someone "skipped" the southern states and openly claimed such twice? uponit7771 Nov 2016 #49
We got caught up. The Republican win was in the numbers it took to win electors. That's my takeaway. ancianita Nov 2016 #5
Really? To my my eye, when someone with so many freaking red flags is elected Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #13
Yes. What you say is true, too. Read my earlier post to get how the evidence supports all the red ancianita Nov 2016 #18
oh, I see -- thanks Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #25
Media. Bernie. Comey. Gerrymandering. Vote hacking. nt JTFrog Nov 2016 #7
Russians. lonestarnot Nov 2016 #8
I'm not saying Russians had nothing to do with it, but how did Russian get Americans Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #14
Complacent, apathetic, and no money allocation for new paper ballots for uniform voting across this lonestarnot Nov 2016 #32
ALL OF THE ABOVE Auggie Nov 2016 #9
I remember the day Reagan won flamingdem Nov 2016 #12
I was 24 on inauguration day 1981 and mostly out of it ... Auggie Nov 2016 #17
Agreed, all the above and more! LongTomH Nov 2016 #20
Comey's last minute interference tipped the election andym Nov 2016 #15
This!! I sit and think of this exact sentiment every time I see his face or everytime I hear in the AgadorSparticus Nov 2016 #19
We overplayed the Trump card. gulliver Nov 2016 #21
This is on target. She kept beating that dead horse. LuckyLib Nov 2016 #34
I feel like she needed to go more positive the last couple weeks. Tough to do with Comey's BootinUp Nov 2016 #59
"So what the hell happened???" Martin Eden Nov 2016 #22
Ratings and advertising dollars. Money matters more than truth, country or anything else. Vinca Nov 2016 #24
Bingo Martin Eden Nov 2016 #29
but did they ignore all these things, or just made people not care? Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #33
They didn't ignore those things; they normalized those things Martin Eden Nov 2016 #37
hard to imagine Hillary getting away with that shit, considering how her one comment on Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #39
Shortly afterwards Hillary said shouldn't have said it. On the other hand ... Martin Eden Nov 2016 #41
definitely... some sort of strange insanity hit us during the election Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #43
1, and continue to normalize them uponit7771 Nov 2016 #50
The media followed the shiny object, then woke up scratching their heads (some did anyway) liberal N proud Nov 2016 #26
stupid Americans have turned the presidency into a reality TV show Skittles Nov 2016 #27
media made it acceptable. contrast with emails which they kept pushing JI7 Nov 2016 #28
EMAILS budkin Nov 2016 #30
but it was the media that drove that story, right? Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #35
to be fair and balanced. if trump does something negative they have to balance it out JI7 Nov 2016 #45
Holy crap-- check out the "Look who's back" movie on Netflix Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #38
Bookmarking. n/t Hugin Nov 2016 #40
America is a fucking hell of a lot more right wing is what happened sadly... Locut0s Nov 2016 #44
yeah... the right is showing their true ugly colors, and they don't even care Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #48
Because the electoral college enough right racists were located in the right states. treestar Nov 2016 #46
Hacked election results. Great list of disqualifiers, Fast. rec, nt. Mc Mike Nov 2016 #47
Purging voter lists, Russia, and CNN happened. -Steph- Nov 2016 #51
U.S. Intelligence officials said Russia targetted state and local election systems KatyBR Nov 2016 #52
Exactly! Stainless Nov 2016 #56
CNNMSNBCFox...etc workinclasszero Nov 2016 #60
I've read this a couple times now. So true! R B Garr Nov 2016 #62
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